Dutch people (original) (raw)

Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them. ~ Jan van Riebeeck

Dutch people are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide.

• The Dutch are like the Hindus in their great tolerance.
  • Claude Alphonso Alvares, Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. 1991
• I am thinking about something a Dutch historian once told me about the cultural revolution that swept over the Netherlands in the 1960s. It had been such a settled, orderly, bourgeois nation. The Second World War and the Nazi occupation shattered something deep in the Dutch. After the war, they tried to rebuild what they had, but it was a feeble replica. When the winds of the counterculture began to blow, the establishment institutions collapsed, as if the revolution were inevitable.
  • Rod Dreher, "America’s Dostoevskian Moment" (2 July 2020), The American Conservative
• Spaniards and Dutchmen, and Frenchmen and such men,
  As foemen did curse them, the bowmen of England!
  No other land could nurse them
  • Basil Hood, "The Yeomen of England"
• These people were of all races, colors, and creeds. French were in the north and in the Carolinas. Dutch had built the town on Manhattan island, and their patroons' estates in the Hudson valley; now they were building their own cabins in the Mohawk Indian country that is now New York State. Germans had settled in the Jerseys and in the far west, beyond Philadelphia. Germans and Scotch-Irish were climbing the Carolina mountains; Swedes were in Delaware, English and French and Dutch and Irish were settled in Massachusetts, the New Hampshire Grants, Connecticut, and Virginia. Mingled with all these were Italians, Portuguese, Finns, Arabs, Armenians, Russians, Greeks, and Africans from a dozen very different African peoples and cultures. Black, brown, yellow and white, all these peoples were some of them free and some of them slaves. Also they were intermarried with the American Indians.
  • Rose Wilder Lane, §1 of "The Third Attempt," ch. V of Pt. Two of The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (New York: The John Day Company, 1943), pp. 153–154.
• Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them.
  • Jan van Riebeeck, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (c. January 1656 - December 1658), as quoted in Riebeeck's Journal (1897), by H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town, p. 67
• German Bismarck said that the solution of the Irish question lay in having the Irish to swap countries with the Dutch. He added that the Dutch would make Ireland the most beautiful island in the world while the Irish would neglect to mend the dykes left to them by the Dutch and therefore would be drowned.
  • John Green Sims, Whither, World? (Privately published, 1938) p. 78.
• When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!”
  • Kevin D. Williamson, "Governance Envy" (May 2020), National Review
• Encyclopedic article on Dutch people on Wikipedia